Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
LADIES' COLUMN.
Fans to Woo Soft Zephyrs and Win
Shy SWANS.
Gowns for the Graduate, GreenWay
and Gretchen for Wee Ones,
Dining Room Discourse-Coliars, Cuds and
Aprons-Notes, Recipes

zephyrs of spring no longer WOO one tC
leave the shade of darkened house, but
in cool neglige the wise woman lounges
at home and fans. Blessed be that mGn
or woman who invented fans! To what
purpose may they not he put? The Span
ish girl flashes bright chances from soft
black eyes and telegraphs by many move
ments the message her duenna fOrbids
her speak. They furnish also good
! field of display for the painters art. Who
does not prize genuine Vatican fan
! with court ladies in their quaint attire?
America, cosmopolitan IN everything,
gathers fans from every nation, fans
Japanese, fans Chinese, fans French, fans
! painted and fans jeweled. The loveliest
are the feathered, with SiIvered
sticks, waving in graceful white
ness, and contrasting so pTettily with
the bright color5 which now enliven all
assemblages. There are others of pretty
crepe, painted in flowers so natural as to
beguile the sense. These eli are things
of beauty, but for comfort none rival ma
ture's. own production, the palmetto, and
no hostess bent on ministering to the
comfort of her guests will fail to have
these in abundance, for they are the best
of fans.
June comes apace, and TO many
this means the breaking up
of pleasant ties and going forth
to meet life. The sweet girl
graduate thinks only Of the essay VII erein
she is to indulge IN pretty sermOnizing
on the duties of the coming life aud utter
brave words of wisdom 70 her class
mates. The mother, more practical,
thinks of the gown, and to her some
hints may be servicea5le.
As TO color there can be no question
that like vestal virgins they must be in
white. This places all more nearly on
footing, for to the spectators the general
effect Is much the same, and 8 81 dress
neatly fitted and tsstefully draped will
show 10 disparaging contrast with more
elaborate and costly toilets. Youthful
simplicity and unadOTned girlish grace
will 60 for much in favor Of the cheaper
gown.
In the matter of fabric there is more to
choose. Lace carries all before it this
summer, but lace is in questionable taste
for young girls. Lace Tor the tiny tot
Just learning TO walk, lace for the woman
grown, but simpler stufs, many tastidlous
people would say, for the school girl.
Soft fine nuns veIlings and serges will
make perhaps majority Of the gradual
ing gowns. White tricot, basket cloth,
flannel hOmespuG, convent clota or Cassl-
mere supply variety in plenty from which
to make the 2ll-imp0rtaDt choice.
The white woglen gown gains its ef.
feCts by perfection OF detail, not by edo
Grafton. Il must be simple, almost Sc
we're in its outlines and harmonious.
Such gowns are hieh-necked and long
sleevad srd Their iraperies clear the
ground One CT e n ST satisfactory
mas short, full fahag without ex-
ira dTdpeTies, stra II from waist to hem.
It is Of the sOitesJ L alJatTOss cloth and
the pointed basque has sleeves with long,
not too full, pufs gathered into close
cuff at the wris. For use after gradua-
ton day it is frightened with broad 10
man ribbons il vivid red with moss
green touches that hangs in ,)ng loops
at the back. Another dainty dress for a
young girl is of white serge W q plated
vest and cutaway jacket an ngement
over il, fastening s point with a ribbon
bow. The suit has 3 broad be of folds
Of the serge and very simple, graceful
drapery.
Very sheer main sock is goo5 material,
when for any reason thin DIR, ) is cho-
sen, trimmed with oriental lac, or, bet |
ter yet, the delic.te plat Val, g the pop
ular abbreviRtioD goes. Surs's, grena-
dimes and crepes are allowable the only |
essential being exquisite care, neatness |
and simplicity.
The wee ones who do not graduate but |
take part in the exercises of commence |
ment day must be prettily dressed in !
Kate GTeenway costumes. All the |
smaller folks gowns must be Gretchen |
dresses. Every sleeve has pun to it. 1t |
may be at the shoulder or il may be at |
the wrist, or it may be shirred into tiny |
puffs all the way down; but T fed it is,
and very prettily Old finnish anC dignifed |
INTERCHANGEABLE it looks.
From Paris letters there is Htlle pros
DeCt Of the diminishing of the ,Jurnure.
It would seem the wish had ben father |
to the thought, for it only g. VS. mar
rover and larger, so much so IS to make |
.he skirt shorter in the back. Tle effort
If all mantua-makers is to mai the side
If the skirt fat and the back as full as
possible.
Skirts of short length dresses are al
most invariably plested; they nay be in
)oX pleats or in single ones. When the
Material is striped the single ones are
preferred, and tn drspery across the
ront has the STRIP placed horizontally.
Basques are finished simply at the bot
om-the four pieces of the back are cut
n such way as to form four points in
he back, others differ by CO ting the
dges of the two middle square, and one
lalf OF each side piece to form q square
,oX pleet in the middle Of the back.
Almost all sleeves OF thin material are
III straight to meet long, closely but
oned wide cuff. The slee"e being
.sthered slightly iG:o the armh Die, care
must be taken not 70 have it toe full as it
will give the sleeve baggy appearance.
Collars, in spite of the hot weather,
eem to b. creeping higher ana higher,
nd when the collar can 90 no fe rther the
feet is heightened by mario ' rim OF
White linen or narrow r. hing.
LINGERIE.
Linen collars and cuffs are again
ashionsbly worn with wool dresses. The
ollars are high straight bands, or else
hey are turned over in points in front in
ne English shape. Cuffs Gre not so
l0se-dtting as the jersey cuffs lately
worm, and ct least en- inch Of the snowy
men shows below the Coal sleeve. The
ancy is to button cuffs inside the arm ]
,ith q single button, not with the linked
uttons worn by men. Embroidery en-
ollars and cuffs is very slight, in the
nest vine pattern, or in brier stitching, {
: in three or four rows of
mall dots, which may be white or
! colors, such ss Old-rose, deep red, gray